Apex Legends Character Guide: Which Character Is Best Suited For You?

Apex Legends offers a variety of characters with different abilities and field of expertise. These characters help you to win a battle in the deadly battle royale. The characters in Apex Legends are divided into three categories.

Offensive characters.
Defensive characters.
Supportive characters.

We have prepared a guide to give all a brief knowledge of each and every character and their abilities in Apex Legends. So, without any further ado let us continue to our guide.

Wraith

Passive Ability: Voices of the Void

Tactical Ability: Into the Void

Ultimate Ability: Dimensional Rift

Wraith is an offensive character in Apex Legends. Her small frame/hitbox makes it easy to evade incoming attacks with a few manoeuvres. Wraith passive ability warn her about any incoming threat. Her tactical ability Into the Void let her travel in a different dimension which is followed by a blue fazing trail. Wraith can open portals having two ends using her main ability Dimensional Rift.

Mirage

Passive Ability: Encore!

Tactical Ability: Psyche Out

Ultimate Ability: Vanishing Act

Mirage is one of the three available offensive characters in Apex Legends. His passive ability deploys a body double when knocked while making you invisible. Mirage deploys a decoy which can be pointed in any direction. This ability makes it easy to fool your opponents while creating a window to attack or escape. The Vanishing act helps Mirage to cloak himself while creating a group of decoys.

Octane

Passive Ability: Swift Mend

Tactical Ability: Stim

Ultimate Ability: Launch Pad

Octane is the fastest and one of my favourite characters in Apex Legends. Octane is also the first character who recover health over time. Stim enables octane to use the adrenaline rush to move at a fast pace. Octane's ultimate deploys a throwable launchpad which can be used to launch yourself or your teammates into the sky.

Bloodhound

Passive Ability: Tracker

Tactical Ability: Eye of the AllFather

Ultimate Ability: Beast of Hunt

Bloodhound is one of the support characters available in Apex Legends. Bloodhound passive ability tracker helps him to see enemy footsteps who have recently been in that area. His tactical ability enables him to briefly reveal enemies, traps and through all structures in a limited area. Beast of Hunt ability is best used in small areas or end circle as it increases his senses, speed and tracking ability.

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Pathfinder

Passive Ability: Insider Knowledge

Tactical Ability: Grappling Hook

Ultimate Ability: Zipline Gun

Pathfinder is one of the best supportive characters his passive ability is used to find the next circle location. The grappling hook is used to manoeuvre through high locations meanwhile the zip line gun takes you from one place to another. Pathfinder can create an escape route or a flank at ease.

Lifeline

Passive Ability: Combat Medic

Tactical Ability: D.O.C Heal Drone

Ultimate Ability: Care Package

Lifeline is one of the most favourite and most used characters in Apex Legends. Lifeline's passive ability is what makes her one of the best supportive characters. It enables her to revive downed teammates at a fast rate. While reviving your drone deploys a shield in front of you which protect both you and your downed teammate from incoming attacks. The tactical ability deploys a healing drone which heals you over time. Care package ability helps lifeline to call a supply drop any time at any place.

Bangalore

Passive Ability: Double Time

Tactical Ability: Smoke Launcher

Ultimate Ability: Rolling Thunder

Bangalore is an offensive character in Apex Legends her ability double time increases her sprint speed if dealing with incoming fire. Smoke Launcher is used to create a smoke screen while the rolling thunder ultimate is used to make a path in a battlefield. It calls for an airstrike which can be used to traverse the battlefield full of enemies.

Caustic

Passive Ability: NOX Vision

Tactical Ability: NOX Gas Trap

Ultimate Ability: NOX Gas Grenade

Caustic is one of the two available defensive characters in Apex Legends. NOX vision is a threat vision which enables you to track enemies moving through your gas. There are a total of 6 gas traps which is used to trap your enemies. These traps deal over time damage and are easy to handle. Surrounded by enemies? Don't worry NOX gas grenade envelopes the area in NOX gas. Use it to kill multiple targets with ease, or escape while you have a little time window.

Gibraltar

Passive Ability: Gun Shield

Tactical Ability: Dome of Protection

Ultimate Ability: Defensive Bombardment

Gibraltar is the most unliked character of Apex Legends due to his huge frame and hitbox. Gibraltar passive ability deploys a small shield on his gun while in ADS. The dome of protection creates a small safe zone which blocks incoming fire while also blocking the outgoing damage so use it wisely. The ultimate ability calls a mortar strike in a place marked by smoke.

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Edited by Mayank Vora